Here are some conclusions according to recent events (questionable
reliability of Wikimedian projects) and to meeting of the part of
members of Initiative for Wikimedia Serbia and Montegro:
1. As the part of Wikimedian community supports hoaxes (i.e.
"Zlatiborian language") we are considered that such cases (not only
related to Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian languages area) can make
completely damage to relevancy of Wikimedia and her projects.
2. We completely understand that Wikimedian projects are not only WMF
Board's projects, but the projects of Wikimedian community. According
to that, we worry that recent events are not isolated cases, but the
important rule in Wikimedian community. Because of that we understand
that our involvement, as organization in the future, in Wikimedian
project assumes that we support such kinds of scientific and social
irresponsibilities. And we are not ready to do that.
3. Only because of the fact that our meeting was just the meeting of
the part of Initiative for WM SCG, we didn't make any decision. As we
would have Founding Assembly in two weeks, as our first meeting with
full number of members from now, we would make decision then.
4. Decisions can be: (1) We would a "full" local chapter (i.e., like
German Chapter is) with the name "Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro" or
(2) we would not be a "full" local chapter, but only a friendly
organization which can behave like an Wikimedian local chapter (with
different name then "Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro").
Hoi,
On Meta we wrote an article about the teaching of languages.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_training_in_Wikiversity Please have
a read.
There are two things that are important to mention; the University of
Bamberg is working on the implementation of what is written. The software
will be a toolkit that can be used by people developing a curriculum or by
people defining targeted exercises for specific conditions. As the
University of Bamberg is in the business of teaching Italian to Germans,
many if not most of the exercises will be created. When the curriculum is to
be used for speakers of other languages, it will be a matter of defining the
meta data about these languages and making sure that the translations for
the key Italian words exist in the Ultimate Wiktionary
One other key thing in computer based training is how and where and under
what conditions do you store information about the educational process. When
the curriculum for the learning of a language gets to the stage where many
of the exercises can be handled by the computer including evaluating and
reporting to a possible teacher, it will free the teacher to teach the
things where a computer is at a disadvantage; stimulating the active use of
a language comes to mind.
There is always this argument that a good teacher cannot be replaced by
material and I agree. What we can do is creating material where there is
much more personalisation of the learning material to the student. When we
have a broad array of texts, we can use these texts to find material that is
of interest to a student. He/she still needs to learn all the basic words
for a language the inflections and everything but this can be wrapped in
topical texts that are of interest to the students. In Wikipedia we have
LOADSA text. In Wikibooks we have even more texts and when we get a
reputation, we may interest newspaper to use their current articles and in
the process let students learn their product..
Thanks,
GerardM
The list it was sent to was definitely the wrong one, maybe you want to have
a look at...
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Bryan Derksen wrote:
> I'm afraid I don't understand your objection. My proposed wording says
> "Unless you are [[Special:Userlogin|logged in]] your edit will be signed
> with your [[IP address]] when you click 'Save'," which explicitly says
> your IP address _will_ be made public (signatures are public by nature)
> - it's the whole point of the thing. It doesn't say one way or another
> whether your IP address will be recorded if you're logged in, so that's
> not factually incorrect either. I addressed that in my comment.
It doesn't explicitly say it, it implicitly says it - if you take
"signed" to mean publically. I have never been aware of a signature to
be public.
Your proposed wording also implies that your IP address will not be
"signed" with your edits if you are logged in, which might be true
according to your definition of a signature, but your phrasing is
ambiguous and confusing.
Chris
On 11/2/05, Amgine <amgine at saewyc.net
<http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l>> wrote:
>> For these reasons, I would personally be in favour of blocking
>> access, or at least editing, to all anonymizing services.
>
> I would say that more important than trying to identify each user's
> IP and disallowing anonymity -- which strikes me as the wrong way
> to go -- would be asking users (presumed anonymous) to verify their
> goodwill and interest in the projects by working in a sandboxed
> area, or submitting time-delayed changes, until they had
> demonstrated a reasonable threshhold of good faith; at which point
> they could vandalize and be quickly blocked, having spent much more
> time getting to that point than the vandal-fighters did blocking
> them.
>
> Anonymity serves useful purposes; we should try to preserve those
> while promoting the productive development of the projects.
>
> To be mergist about these ideas... one could offer users both
> options. 1) edit under a privacy policy which disallows anonymity,
> or 2) edit anonymously, first passing through a sandbox stage to
> demonstrate that you are not a bot and are acting in good faith.
>
> + SJ +
The amount of intervention required to do as you suggest - check all time
delayed entries for vandalism, create a system to over come edit conflicts
which develop during the time delay (more "magic solutions"), create and
implement a policy covering "reasonable threshold of good faith",
managing anon user privileges who meet that threshold - would cost more
than the current vandal fighting does. The point is to reduce the existing
cost significantly.
The proposed model allows for anonymity except when an IP is investigated
for wrong doing, and would probably reduce time cost to sites by
preventing anonymized IPs from editing maliciously. By implementing a
system which requires monitoring, decision-making, and user privilege
management you would create an onerous time task for smaller projects and
likely create opportunities for conflict which are unnecessary.
Amgine
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> Personally I just started using Tor. So CheckUser doesn't affect me any
>more. As an added bonus I don't have to worry about Google tracking me
>either. Fortunately, most Tor exit nodes aren't currently blocked, though.
>If this changes, this workaround might go away. Hopefully the other policy,
>to allow (at least some) logged in users to edit through blocked proxies,
>will pass by then.
>
>
>
Having just spent a couple of evenings dealing with a Tor-using vandal,
I would personally immediately suspect any account using Tor of
sock-puppetry simply due to guilt by association. Secrecy and anonymity
are laudable, but since their primary visible use is to engage in
unethical and/or illegal behavior vis-a-vis Wikimedia projects they are
immediately deserving of suspicion.
For the same reason Wiki projects do not allow "public" accounts, there
is no reason to use anonymizing techniques when editing. You may
instantly and anonymously receive an account. Your IP will not be
examined except in unusual circumstances, and then will be handled under
a stringent privacy policy which protects your information even in the
case of wrong doing. For these reasons, I would personally be in favour
of blocking access, or at least editing, to all anonymizing services.
Amgine
> To make it even less scary, how about:
>
> :Unless you are [[Special:Userlogin|logged in]] your edit will be signed
> with your [[IP address]] when you click 'Save'. See our
> [[Wikipedia:Privacy policy|privacy policy]].
>
> Having an edit be signed with your IP number is IMO less threatening
> than saying we'll show your IP number publically, more of a way of
> granting attribution for the contributor's fine work than a warning that
> "we're watching you!". This version does unfortunately omit the point
> that Wikipedia records the IP address of logged-in users too, but it's
> not like we can compress every detail of the privacy policy down into
> just two lines and it should be pretty obvious to anyone who's thinking
> about this sort of thing so hopefully not a major omission.
The thing is, this is factually incorrect. Your IP address *will* be
recorded and associated with your edits if you are signed in, and this
omits the fact that if you are not logged in, it will be associated with
your edits publically. This is the key point of adding this message - to
warn people that their IP address will be made public if they edit
without being logged in. Omit this, and you may as well not have the
warning.
Chris
Hello All-
I am emailing the foundation list to propose a new wiki project.
*Wikicharacter* will be a database of every character in every published
work of fiction, ever. The database will contain pages for each character,
with links to related characters. The page for each character will be in the
form of a biography, consisting of a "history" gleaned completely from the
published materials in which the character appeared. The database will cover
books, films, television, video games, advertising, and theater.
I have made a page with details of my proposal on Meta-Wiki:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCharacter
Please, if you are interested in this project, add your name to the proposed
projects page, and either email me directly or respond to this message.
I have thought about this project for a long time, and put it aside due to
the difficulty involved in amassing such data. Only recently did I realize
that Wiki will be an excellent way to bring it to life. I am excited about
the possibilities. Thank you all for your consideration, and I'd appreciate
any and all comments regarding the project. - Joseph Del Senno